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PrivAcy pReserving Infrastructure for Surveillance

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Rights and surveillance

An EU team examined civil rights related to surveillance, focusing on accountability and privacy. The research helped develop a framework and management tool, validating it through demonstrations.

With ever-increasing surveillance capability, there is a corresponding growth in concerns about misuse. Such issues need balancing, in part by definition of rights. The EU-funded PARIS (Privacy preserving infrastructure for surveillance) project aimed to provide such a definition. The eight-member consortium worked on developing and demonstrating a new surveillance infrastructure that enforces citizens’ rights to privacy, justice and freedom. The infrastructure includes the evolving nature of such rights. Using a methodological approach, the team focused on two issues: accountability and a process for designing surveillance systems that duly addresses privacy. Furthermore, two use cases were addressed. The first involved data archived from video search technology, and the second considered data from embedded sensors in biometrics technology. Coming from different backgrounds, the partners first shared with each other their respective approaches to privacy. Doing so helped establish a combined vision. Other work during the reporting period addressed the project’s five objectives, particularly regarding development of the socio-ethical legal and technological (SALT) framework. The team identified requirements for a SALT framework management tool and detailed the process compliance concept. Additional work involved laboratory demonstration that showed how a surveillance system can be developed using a SALT-compliant process for video data life-cycle management-based applications. The project’s achievements were disseminated through a workshop on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Surveillance Technologies in 2015 and another on the Directive for Data Protection in the Police and Justice Sectors in 2016. PARIS also organised the Annual Privacy Forum in Luxembourg in 2015, successfully advancing rights and ethics surrounding surveillance. Numerous deliverables and papers on the topic are available on the project website for stakeholders to benefit from.

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Surveillance, privacy, PARIS, ethical, video data, data protection

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